Create Desktop shortcuts or Context Menu items to open various Settings in Windows 10

If there are some Windows 10 settings that you access frequently, you would like an option to open them directly by clicking on a desktop shortcut or a right-click context menu item, right? Well in this post, we will see the URI for Settings apps, that open the particular Settings page directly.

A URI or Uniform Resource Identifier is a string of characters used to identify a name of a resource. So if you know the URI for each of the settings, you can create its desktop shortcut, or edit the Windows Registry and add it to the context menu.

URI for specific Windows 10 settings

MSDN has listed the URIs that target specific settings apps in Windows 10. This table lists the URIs that you can use to display built-in settings pages in Windows 10.

Category

Settings page

URI

Home

Landing page for Settings

ms-settings:

System

Display

ms-settings:displayms-settings:screenrotation

Notifications

ms-settings:notifications

Storage

ms-settings:storagesense

Battery Saver

ms-settings:batterysaver

Battery Saver

ms-settings:batterysaver-settings

Battery Saver

ms-settings:batterysaver-usagedetails

Offline Maps

ms-settings:maps

Devices

Bluetooth

ms-settings:bluetooth

Connected Devices

ms-settings:connecteddevices

Mouse & Touchpad

ms-settings:mousetouchpad

Network and Wi-fi

Power & Sleep

ms-settings:powersleep

Airplane mode

ms-settings:network-airplanemode

Cellular

ms-settings:network-cellular

Dial-up

ms-settings:network-dialup

Ethernet

ms-settings:network-ethernet

Proxy

ms-settings:network-proxy

Data Sense

ms-settings:datausage

Wi-Fi

ms-settings:network-wifi

Mobile Hotspot

ms-settings:network-mobilehotspot

Start

ms-settings:personalization-start

Personalization

Lock screen

ms-settings:lockscreen

Personalization

ms-settings:personalization

Accounts

Your account

ms-settings:emailandaccounts

Your workplace

ms-settings:workplace

Time and language

Date & time

ms-settings:dateandtime

Region & language

ms-settings:regionlanguage

Speech

ms-settings:speech

Privacy

Calendar

ms-settings:privacy-calendar

Contacts

ms-settings:privacy-contacts

Feedback & diagnostics

ms-settings:privacy-feedback

Location

ms-settings:privacy-location

Messaging

ms-settings:privacy-messaging

Microphone

ms-settings:privacy-microphone

Other

ms-settings:privacy-customdevices

Radio

ms-settings:privacy-radios

Speech

ms-settings:privacy-speechtyping

Webcam

ms-settings:privacy-webcam

Update & Security

Windows update

ms-settings:windowsupdate

As I mentioned earlier, you can use this list to create desktop shortcuts.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP Awardee in Windows (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire post & the comments first, create a System Restore Point before making any changes to your system & be careful about any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.